Radio France Internationale (RFI) Chinese Edition recently reported that the Turkish Constitutional Court ordered that the ban on Wikipedia be lifted because the ban was recognized as a violation of the Constitution. The Turkish government removed the three-year-old ban. This made China the world’s only country left that still blocks Wikipedia. The Chinese government blocks all language editions of this globally popular encyclopedia website. Turkey blocked the site due to the fact that Wikipedia published two articles accusing the Turkish government of supporting terrorist groups. From time to time, Turkey has also blocked Facebook and Twitter. Turkey is still the world’s number one country to have requested deletion of twitter postings. However, the Wikipedia block caused a widespread wave of anger among Turkish netizens. It was a surprise that the Turkish government honored the Constitutional Court ruling.
Source: RFI Chinese, January 17, 2020
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